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[[File:12 The Hanged Man.png|500px|thumb|Depictions of the Hanged Man from various Tarot decks]] | [[File:12 The Hanged Man.png|500px|thumb|Depictions of the Hanged Man from various Tarot decks]] | ||
'''The Hanged Man''' is the 12th card in the [[Major Arcana]] in most traditional [[Tarot]] decks. | '''The Hanged Man''' is the 12th card in the [[Major Arcana]] in most traditional [[Tarot]] decks. | ||
It is associated with the [[qlippoth]] of [[Ghogiel]] ("The Hinderers") on the [[Kabbalah|Kabbalistic]] [[Tree of Death]]. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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The painting of Chastity depicts a carriage carrying a woman holding a spear and a flag with the image of a lamb. Below her, there is an [[angel]] with its hands bound behind its back. This angel is one of the [[cherubim|cherubs]] from the earlier Love carriage. His arms are tied so he can no longer shoot arrows of love. Among the crowd of onlookers watching the carriage, most people are raising one hand in benediction while the [[Left-hand path|left hand]] is covering their crotch. | The painting of Chastity depicts a carriage carrying a woman holding a spear and a flag with the image of a lamb. Below her, there is an [[angel]] with its hands bound behind its back. This angel is one of the [[cherubim|cherubs]] from the earlier Love carriage. His arms are tied so he can no longer shoot arrows of love. Among the crowd of onlookers watching the carriage, most people are raising one hand in benediction while the [[Left-hand path|left hand]] is covering their crotch. | ||
In the earliest version of the [[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]], this card depicted a woman chained to the ground with her hands bound together in prayer, trampling a [[demon]] of lust. Subsequent versions modified this theme to a man being hanged for treason or a man tied to a stake on the ground. | In the earliest version of the [[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]], this card depicted a woman chained to the ground with her hands bound together in prayer, trampling a [[demon]] of lust. This version is erroneously identified as "Hope" by most scholars. Subsequent versions modified this theme to a man being hanged for treason or a man tied to a stake on the ground. | ||
==Depiction== | ==Depiction== | ||
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==Symbolism== | ==Symbolism== | ||
[[File:Chastity Triumph.jpg|300px|thumb|Original triumph of Chastity from ''[[trionfi|I Trionfi]]'']] | |||
The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure— from the position of the legs—forms a hooked cross (a swastika). There is a nimbus around his head in the style of a [[martyr]]. It should be noted that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves thereon; that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; and that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension. | The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure— from the position of the legs—forms a hooked cross (a swastika). There is a nimbus around his head in the style of a [[martyr]]. It should be noted that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves thereon; that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; and that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension. | ||